books - No Kill Switch (Page 2)

4 years agoin books

The best of 2015 - books I've read

I've already published my summary post for 2015, but it surely deservers few supplements & here's the first of them: list of the best books I've read in 2015. Please, keep in mind that it doesn't imply that all of…

5 years agoin personal, books

Credo of the bookworm

I'm a hopeless case of a typical bookworm - I don't read books, I just devour them. Fiction, non-fiction, tech: everything. In general people in the industry acknowledge the fact that we're supposed to keep learning or we're out of…

5 years agoin software development, books

Stuff I've found on the web: succinct (but meaty) tech books for free

Free source of information isn't a thing yet - Internet is full of crap anyway. But a free source of valuable information is a completely different kind of story - the one we welcome with open arms. Usually. That's why…

5 years agoin books, Amazon, Kindle

Why I don't care about Amazon Kindle Unlimited

Amazon's content offensive continues - Bezos & gang have just officially announced a new service - Amazon Kindle Unlimited. There's no need for long descriptions: AKU is pretty much Netflix equivalent for books. In theory, it's plainly awesome - I…

5 years agoin lean thinking, books

Switching to the Lean Mindset: meet the Poppendiecks

Have you heard about the Poppendiecks? Mary & Tom? I did, but somehow I've skipped reading their books until now. It's not like they've written zillion of them (because they've written just 3 AFAIK), but it seems that when they…

8 years agoin books, E-Learning, Channel9

Learn from the best - aka DevTV

Let’s assume you’ve got will and time to do some learning - what’s the way to do it in a most efficient way? There has to be a source of information - person, book, e-book, etc. Information…